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Recent
and Upcoming Performances
2006-07:
- On
August 4 and
5th, Maja Cerar performed Autopoiesis
and Mimesis (both
by Borissov/Cerar) at the SIGGRAPH
international conference/festival,
Cal-IT2 Auditorium, San Diego.
- On
October 26th,
Cerar will perform Emerge (by
Borissov/Cerar/Geers) at
the NWEAMO
festival, New York City.
- In
June Cerar
performed a chamber music recital of
Vivaldi, Monti,
etc., on the island of Dugi Otok, Croatia, at the opening concert of
the summer 2007 cultural season.
- In
March, Cerar
performed music and movement in Liubo Borissov and Edisa Weeks' An
Arrow and a Fall, at Swing Space and the Joyce SoHo Theater,
New York
City.
- Cerar
was
spotlighted at the 2007 Spark
Festival of
Electronic Music
and Arts in late February, where she played Morton Subotnick's Tremble,
Ted Mann Concert Hall; Jason Freeman's, Graph Theory, Southern Theater;
and Doug Geers' Shadow, Southern Theatre (Minneapolis).
- In
February 2007
Cerar performed Jason Freeman's Graph
Theory, at the Cornelia Street Café, New York City as part
of the Serial Underground
series.
- On
October 26,
2006 Maja Cerar premiered a multimedia violin
concerto written for her by Douglas Geers at the final night of the
international Unicum
Festival for new music and as part of the
subscription series of the Radio-Television
Orchestra of Slovenia (Evan
Christ, conductor), at the Cankarjev Dom Performing Arts Center in
Ljubljana Slovenia. This performance was broadcast live on national
television and radio, and included choreography by Maja Cerar.
- In
August 2006
Cerar performed a chamber music recital
at
the Loca Musica
summer school in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
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- In
May 2006 Cerar
recorded a new work written for her
by
Jason Freeman. This Internet-based work was launched in October.
- Maja
Cerar was a
"Featured Soloist" at the 2006
Spark Festival (February) and performed two programs of
electroacoustic
music by featured composer Alvin Lucier and
composers Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece),
Gilles Gobert (Belgium), Roger Dannenberg (U.S.), Douglas Geers (U.S.),
and Cerar/Borissov (Switzerland/Bulgaria) in the Ted Mann Concert Hall
and Ultan Recital
Hall, Minneapolis.
- A
number of
multimedia works in development will
prominently include
performances by Maja Cerar. Among these are collaborations with
composer Butch Rovan (Professor of Music, Brown University), director
Mirjam Neidhart (Switzerland/Germany), composer Douglas Geers
(University of Minnesota) and writer Wickham Boyle (NYC), light/video
artist Christine Sciulli (NYC), dancer/choreographer Edissa Weeks
(Delirious Dance Company), and digital artist Liubo Borissov (NYC).
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Appearances in
2001-05 --
Highlights:
International
- John
Zorn's violin concerto "Contes
de Fées" on the opening evening of the ISCM
(International Society for Contemporary Music) World Music Days 2003
and the opening of the season of the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra in
Ljubljana
- Solo
work "Enkidu"
by Douglas Geers with the Experimentalstudio
der
Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des Südwestrundfunks Freiburg
at the
ISCM
World Music Days 2003
- Karl
Amadeus Hartmann violin
concerto "Concerto
Funebre", Portogruaro, Italy; Radio-Television Orchestra
of Slovenia
(Lior Shambadal, conductor)
- Multimedia
work Autopoiesis (Borissov/Cerar)
and improvisatory performance at ICMC
2005 festival, Barcelona
- Gilgamesh,
an evening-long
multimedia violin concerto: Zurich,
Theater an der
Sihl, June 20-22,
2002 (created by Douglas Geers, composer; Anne Lorenz, visual design;
Mirjam Neidhart, director)
- Blaz
Arnic violin
concerto, Radio-Television Orchestra of Slovenia
(Arnic, conductor)
- Classical
recital with pianist
John Novacek in the 300 year anniversary season of the Slovene
Philharmonic, Philharmonia
Hall, Ljubljana
- Solo
program with works by Bach,
Ysaÿe, and Geers at the Festival
of Creativity and Free Culture, Cankarjev Dom,
Ljubljana, 2005.
- Performances
on Swiss and
Slovene national television networks, 2000-2007.
- Solo
work "Enkidu"by
Douglas
Geers at
the final concert of the 2003
ICMC festival, Singapore
- Theater
production of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in Mexico City and Huatulco
(directed by
Hansjörg Betschart), as well as concerts as soloist (Tartini,
"Devil's Trill"; Romanelli, "Double Concerto"; etc.) at the
"Viva
Vivaldi" Festival of Baroque music in Mexico City and
subsequent broadcast performances on Mexican national
television, 2002 and 2003.
New
York City:
- Miller Theatre All-American
contemporary program (works by Charles Ives, John Zorn, George
Antheil, Jimi Hendrix, etc.), with pianist John Novacek, February 2001.
- Merce Cunningham Studio
ThreeTwo Festival: Performances in a collaborative dance piece (music
by Keith Moore / Maja Cerar, choreography by Malene Schjonning)
- Kentler
International Drawing
Space symposium "Herbert Brün: Computer Graphics and
Compositions for Interpreters" collaborative work with Liubo Borisson
featuring live interactive audio and video
- Columbia
University
"RE: New Frontiers of Creativity" Symposium as part of the 250 Year Celebration of
Columbia
University (a collaborative work with Liubo Borissov with
choreography, live video and audio processing, created under the
auspices of multimedia artist Paul Kaiser)
- Lower
Manhattan
Project/Builders' Association/Dancing in the Streets: Thomas Edison
collaborative project with Liubo Borissov with live interactive video
processing, violin and theremin
- 25th
Anniversary Season of the American
Festival of Microtonal Music, work
with live electronics by Douglas Geers, Faust Harrison Salon
- ASCAP's "Through The
Walls" series, with works by Douglas Geers
- International Festival of
Electroacoustic Music, Brooklyn College, New York
- "Living
with the Genie"
media/technology festival/symposium, Columbia University, New York
- Merkin Hall (Zoom:
Composers Close-Up - Emerging Composers), work by Luke DuBois with
interactive video
- Additional
performances at
Merkin Hall, Weill Hall
(Carnegie Hall), Chelsea Museum, Engine 27, The Slipper Room, Tenri,
the Speyer Recital Hall, Columbia University, NYU, Here, Shapiro
Theatre, Riverside Church, etc.
Elsewhere in the U.S.
- Ought One Festival, Montpelier,
Vermont
- Biennial Symposium on Arts and
Technology, New London, Connecticut
- SEAMUS Festival for
Electroacoustic Music in both Texas (2000) and Arizona (2003)
- LITSK Biennial Symposium of
Electronic Music, Princeton
University
- The Roosevelt Arts Project, New
Jersey
- The Santa Fe International
Festival of Electronic Music
- NWEAMO Festival in
San Diego
- (etc.)
To engage Maja Cerar for
performances or for further information, please contact
maja[at]music[dot]columbia[dot]edu
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